Highlights from the Spring 2025 Green Team Newsletter:
Prayer & Reflection
- A video prayer from Lutherans Restoring Creation: "Fact: The Earth is Good."
- Link: Watch here
Feature: Lutheran Environmentalists in the West Bank
- Highlights the Nassar family, a Lutheran Palestinian family promoting nonviolence and sustainability.
- Discusses the Environmental Education Center of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land.
- Focus areas:
- Water conservation
- Climate change awareness
- Eco-tourism
- Biodiversity protection
- Sustainable resource management
- Website: eecp.org
Green Tips: Growing Your Own Food
- Inspired by Wendell Berry’s essay "The Pleasures of Eating."
- Encourages planting food at home, composting, and understanding the food cycle.
- Link: Read the essay
Inspiration: Yards and Yards of Hope & Restoration
- Discusses Homegrown National Park, an initiative encouraging homeowners to plant native species.
- Promotes reducing pesticide use, planting native flowers, and supporting local wildlife.
- Website: homegrownnationalpark.org
Book Review: We Survived the End of the World by Steven Charleston
- Explores Native American perspectives on apocalypse and hope.
- Highlights historical indigenous leaders who faced cultural and environmental crises.
- Advocates for climate-conscious faith communities, referencing Charleston’s Genesis Covenant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50%.
Advocacy & Action
- Highlights organizations resisting anti-environmental policies, including:
- Earthjustice
- Sierra Club
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Greenpeace
- 350.org
- The Nature Conservancy
- Encourages using Climate Action Now, an app providing daily climate action steps.
- Website: climateactionnow.com
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